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Is Boxing the only Sport that has not Improved over the Years?

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    #1

    Is Boxing the only Sport that has not Improved over the Years?

    Or are we just too nostalgic.

    Weightlifter lift more.
    Sprinters are faster

    Footballers score more goals

    Baseball players hit more home runs

    Snooker players get more century breaks

    Tennis is played at a higher level

    With the advancement of sports science, sportsmen being more professional tactics and training methods have made huge gains in all other sports.

    All except one.

    Well that is if you listen to your average boxing fan

    Which sees boxing in a very nostalgic way. Where the boxers in the past were faster, hit harder, could take a better punch, were tougher and had more stamina, more skilful and had better tactical awarness.

    Hard to believe yes. Despite all other sports improving boxing has gone backwards.


    Are you one of those that believe this rubbish?

    Luckily they time the 100m or some of you would be claiming Lewis was faster than bolt
    Tags: boxing, past, present.
    #2
    it has, not the skills, but the power of the athletes

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      #3
      Originally posted by SplitSecond View Post
      it has, not the skills, but the power of the athletes
      Some don't even believe that.

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        #4
        Nostalgia prevents some from seeing the truth.

        Top athletes now are far above what they used to be, for a variety of reasons.

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          #5
          Boxing is one of the sports that has undergone the most pronounced and significant improvements of any sport!

          In the past, it was possible for nostalgists to make outrageous claims. That time came to an end approximately the year 2000 with the advent of boxrec and the uploading of old fight footage so we could see just how bad these old boxers really were.

          The more variable skill and athletic dimensions involved in a sport, the greater the drive on it for improvement (obviously). And boxing is one of the more technical sports, especially compared with weight-lifting and sprinting.

          And of course, boxing is possibly the highest stakes sport in the world, where losing does not merely mean a dented ego, but often also a dented skull and concussion. This kind of competition forces improvement on a level removed from other sports.

          The claims of the delusionists are nonsense!

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            #6
            I hate to say it, but I think it's because MMA is peaking interest in kids more-so than boxing these days and we're seeing a decline in the talent pool. Without any kind of governing body or a brand that boxing could use (think UFC) to spark interest in kids, we'll probably continue to see a decline for quite some time.

            It's like US Soccer. The international team has always been mediocre because kids tend to gravitate to the more popular sports like football, baseball. With the concussion issue in football, less kids are playing football and participation in both youth soccer and baseball is on the rise. I think we'll see much better players in a few years.

            Just my opinion.

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              #7
              It's improved from the 20's, 30's, and 50's.

              But 1970 onwards has been pretty much the same. If anything boxers were in better condition and had better stamina in the 80's.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Elroy1 View Post
                Boxing is one of the sports that has undergone the most pronounced and significant improvements of any sport!

                In the past, it was possible for nostalgists to make outrageous claims. That time came to an end approximately the year 2000 with the advent of boxrec and the uploading of old fight footage so we could see just how bad these old boxers really were.

                The more variable skill and athletic dimensions involved in a sport, the greater the drive on it for improvement (obviously). And boxing is one of the more technical sports, especially compared with weight-lifting and sprinting.

                And of course, boxing is possibly the highest stakes sport in the world, where losing does not merely mean a dented ego, but often also a dented skull and concussion. This kind of competition forces improvement on a level removed from other sports.

                The claims of the delusionists are nonsense!

                Good post.

                They are still some football fans that think George Best was better than Messi because he played with a heavy ball

                But these nostalgic delusionist seem to run rife through boxing.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Hype job View Post
                  It's improved from the 20's, 30's, and 50's.

                  But 1970 onwards has been pretty much the same. If anything boxers were in better condition and had better stamina in the 80's.

                  So since the 70s training methods, tactics, nutrition, professionalism have made squat in improvements in the sport?

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                    #10
                    It's because since the 80's boxers still train "old school". In pretty much basic gyms with the same old equipment and hardly any sports science used.

                    That's why nutritionists like Alex Ariza are hot property, as they bring some advancement from the 80's. However if a gym invested in proper sports scientists and monitored and tested their athletes with all the technology we now have we would be advanced like all other sports. People like Ariza would then be nobodies.

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